Look at all the books that have won the CILIP Carnegie or Kate Greenaway Medal since the first prize was awarded in 1937. Choose your favourite character from one of the award-winning titles and write about how they would celebrate their birthday in no more than 150 words.

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Every year the Judging Panel spends hours poring over the longlist of titles for the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards to determine which will make the shortlist for each Medal, and who - ultimately - the winners will be. Consider all the titles to have won either the CILIP Carnegie or Kate Greenaway Medal prior to 2012 and make the case for one ‘all-time’ winner in no more than 500 words.

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Each winning Primary and Secondary school entry will receive these fantastic prizes:

• A set of 5 NEO 2 classroom writing tools!

• A complete set of the shortlisted titles for the 2012 awards courtesy of our friends at Scholastic Book Clubs!

Please note that (where possible) entries should be submitted by school rather than by individual students, so please collate all documents in one file and either send via this form or email to: marketing@renlearn.co.uk

Printed or handwritten entries can also be posted to: Read, write, excite! Writing Competition, 32 Harbour Exchange Square, London E14 9GE – but must be received by Friday 1st June, 2012.